648 ARALIACEiE. Adoxa. 



petioles; styles and cells of the ovary 2. — Linn. ! spec. 2. p. 1058 {Catesh. 

 Car. appx. t. 10) ; Michx. ! fi. 2. p. 256 ; Pursh! fl. 1. p. 191 ,- Bot. mag. 

 t. 1333 ; Bigel. mcd. bot. 3. p. 82, t. 29 ,• Bart. veg. mat. med. t. 45 ; Torr.! 

 ji. 1. p. 292 ; DC. ! prodr. 4. p. 252 ; Hook. ! jl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 273 ; 

 Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 181. 



Rich woods, Canada ! to the mountains of the Southern States. July. — 

 Root 3-6 inches in length, transversely wrinkled, aromatic (slightly stimu- 

 lant). Petals yellowish-green. Fruit haccate and bright crimson when 



ripe. The P. pseudo-Ginseng, Wall, of Nepaul (beautifully figured in the 



Plantce Asiaticce Rariores) exceedingly resembles our own well-known 

 Ginseng. 



' 2. P. trifolium (Linn.): polygamo-dioscious ; root globose; leaflets 3-5, 

 ' lanceolate-oblong, not petiolulate ; peduncle nearly as long as the leaves ; 

 styles and cells of the ovary mostly 3. — Lin7i. I. c. ; Michx.! I. c. ; Torr. ! 

 fl. l.p. 291 ,• DC. ! I. c. ! Hook. ! I. c. ; Darlingt. fl. Cest. p. 182. P. pu- 

 silla, Sirns, hot. mag. t. 1334. 



Shady woods along streams, Canada ! to the mountains of the Southern 

 States ! April. — Tuber deep in the ground, pungent to the taste. Stem 4-8 

 inches high. Flowers white. Fruit yellowish-green. — Dicarf Ginseng. 

 Ground-Nut. 



§ 2. Shrubby or arborescent, prickly : leaves pabnately lobed, scattered : 

 umbels mostly racemcd or fanicled. — Oplopanax. 



p. horridum (Smith) : creeping at the base, very prickly in every part ; 

 leaves roundish-cordate, palmately lobed, incisely serrate ; umbels capitate 

 (the flowers often scattered), ]ieduncled, disposed in a long raceme ; styles 

 and cells of the ovary 2. — Smith ! in Bees, cyclop. ; DC. -prodr. 4. p. 252 ; 

 Bongard, mg. Sitcha, I. c. p. 143 ; Hook.! fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 273, t. 98. 

 Araiia erinacea, Hook. ! in Edinh. phil. jour. 1827 ,- DC p>rodr. 4. 

 p. 259. 



Shady fir woods, N. W. Coast and Islands, from Sitcha [Bongard), Char- 

 lotte Sound, &c., to the Oregon, the interior of California, and the Rocky 

 Mountains, Mcnzies ! Dr.Scoulcr! Douglas! Nuttall! Drummond ! and 

 occasionally found on the east side of the Rocky Mountains, according to 

 Drummond. — Stem thick, 6-12 feet high : prickles acicular, yellow. Leaves 

 very large. — The entangled stems are a great impediment to travellers in 

 the woods of the North West Coast. 



3.? ADOXA. Linn. ; Lam. ill. t. 320 ; Koch,fl. Germ. S^ Helv. p. 323 ; 

 Endl. gen. p. 793. 



Flowers perfect. Tube of the calyx coherent with the lower part of the 

 ovary ; the limb slightly 2-3-cleft. Petals 4-5, inserted on the limb of the 

 calyx, united at the base, spreading. Stamens 4-5, each filament 2-parted ; 

 the divisions bearing each a single-celled peltate anther. Styles 4-5, subu- 

 late. Fruit an herbaceous and juicy berry, 4-5-celled ; each cell with a 

 single suspended seed. Seeds compressed, with a membranaceous margin. 

 — A small and slender perennial herb (indigenous to the north of Europe, 

 Asia, and America), with the odor of musk : root tuberous. Radical leaves 

 2-ternately compound, on long petioles ; the cauline solitary, 1-2-ternate or 

 incised. Flowers 4-6 (greenish), in a terminal capitulum ; the lateral ones 

 mostly pentamerous, the terminal tetramerous. 



